Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[featherhead007]

Jumping jelly beans! Where has the time gone? These chickens and horses are time thieves! It's almost 2pm and I have only done chores and nothing else!

I need to get cracking I have a door to fix!

(I have been up since 5:30 too!)

It’s Saturday, take another break!

 

[Cold-Blood]

Probably ate too fast. It was one of the ones that just horked down food.

I wonder if crumbles would be more difficult to choke on.... thoughts ?

 

[ChicoryBlue]

I am so thankful that Rosie does not need anything from me tonight in her show preparations because as of this morning I am out of commission. I cannot stand up straight without crying and when I get into see my doctor in September we will probably have a huge fight. I need a Hysterectomy, have needed one for almost a year and a half. Due to my insurance and the fact that I'm still under 40 it has had to be put off and different options tried. They are not working, I'm miserable and I do not care anymore if I'm not 40. This last option they tried was the final thing before my insurance would approve a hysterectomy. A cyst ruptured this morning and the pain was so bad that I broke out in cold sweats and spent a hour puking. I will drag myself down there to watch her show, but how long I'm able to stay is anyone's guess at this point.

I did 2 years ago when the first one ruptured. They gave pain meds and said as long as I was in no danger of hemorrhaging there was nothing they could do. Unless it gets even more horrendous pain wise I will not take what they suggested. I do not need to be knocked out on the couch for 12 plus hours. I cannot take anything stronger then a prescription motrin and be able to function.

@RebeccaBoyd Maybe you know this already, but I'm surprised your doctors are not more concerned - cyst formation can also occur due to some infection in the area, and then a rupture runs the risk of sepsis, in addition to bleeding internally. Your nausea could be due to that, not just the pain. Also, would need to rule out chronic appendicitis, very difficult to do....Other things - a bandmate years ago had a perforated intestine, he was functional though uncomfortable, had nausea, mild and then worse, that went on for days before he finally sought help. He had Crohn's and was very seriously ill for awhile...
Get help today!

 

[RoyalChick]

I wonder if crumbles would be more difficult to choke on.... thoughts ?

I never heard of a chicken choking on food. Maybe a baby chick could be in danger.
Something must have gone down the wrong way so they inhaled it.

 

[RebeccaBoyd]

As soon as my sister shows up I'm going to the ER. Mom and Dad will stay and help Rosie. She has looked so forward to tonight I do not want to ruin it for her. I do know one thing, I will not leave that hospital until they remove the IUD device that was placed 9 months ago as a last resort and in hopes of shrinking the cysts. My doctors words were it was put in to buy time and if that did not work my insurance would approve a hysterectomy before 40. I had to leave it in 6 months, I've been in misery ever since. I will be 38 in September, I've been having problems since I was 32 and they have gotten worse over the years. I cannot and will not suffer for 2 more years.

 

[BY Bob]

Does anyone think that Xzit has any chance at fame? View attachment 3188297

She is famous here already.

 

[BY Bob]

Caturday pics… sorry, I couldn’t pic just one…View attachment 3188339View attachment 3188340View attachment 3188341View attachment 3188342View attachment 3188343

So many lovely cats.

 

[BY Bob]

And my poor Bobby who was taken by a predator a few months agoView attachment 3188345


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Oh no. That's awful.

 

[goldenfingers]

Caturday pics… sorry, I couldn’t pic just one…View attachment 3188339View attachment 3188340View attachment 3188341View attachment 3188342View attachment 3188343

The first one is my favorite.

 

[Ponypoor]

Not pallets and Tarps, not snow fencing, not paigewire… Jimmy is actually trained to electric, and when I actually fence my yard I’m thinking 5’ no climb horse fencing with 2x4” holes (less chance of horn damage/getting stuck in the fence) and it’s a nice heavy gauge. Then a top line above that to keep the deer at bay perhaps? And definitely a fence line between them and the meat tractors!

I had that no climb fencing for the horses it looks great but….. You Will need a top board across the top and fence posts no more than 8’ centres. Otherwise it sags, use staples staggered every other row of horizontal wires. Also my horses learnt that it is awesome to scrub them selves across in the spring , so mine was decorated with horse hair and it was bowed outward from them rubbing across between the posts (horses are dreadful creatures for money pits!).

I would run electric on the inside to keep the goats from walking up the fence, they will do that, I know, where I kept the horses once they had that fencing and their pet goat was a brat for walking up the fence to see over the top (darn cute but a brat none the less haha).

If it were me I would do 4 board fencing like I have at the moment and a hot wire about 2’ off the ground on the inside to keep goats in. It’s likely the most inexpensive and economical.

My fencing is actually quite tight so a goat wouldn’t be able to squeeze through but a baby would.